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Foxtel/Binge’s Amanda Laing Exiting; Hulu’s Irish Comedy-Drama ‘Obituary’ Travels; Banijay ‘Cricketainment’ Play — Global Briefs
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No word on her next move, but in a statement Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany paid tribute to Laing, saying she has “led dozens of negotiations with US studios for content and channel acquisitions, as well as supported the business as a leading executive on our sports rights deals.” Laing said it had been “privilege to work across both sport and entertainment.” She will remain with the company until September to ensure “a smooth transition of leadership.” The six-part RTÉ series, which we revealed in November 2022, launched earlier this year in Ireland and on Hulu in the U.S., and is now headed for Netflix in the UK, TVNZ in New Zealand, Proximus in Belgium, RTS in French-speaking Switzerland, RTP in Portugal, BluTV in Turkey and Cyprus and TET in Latvia. Co-produced by the UK’s APC Studios and Ireland’s Magamedia in association with Fís Éireann/ Screen Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán and The Wrap Fund, the show stars award-winning Irish TV and theatre actor Siobhán Cullen ( The Dry, Origin), who plays an underpaid obituarist working at a small-town newspaper who becomes a serial killer.
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